Apple Copied Sony’S Design For Iphone: Internal Documents

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Apple gave documents to a [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/California"]California[/url] court on Wednesday which showed that the company used the design of some [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sony"]Sony[/url] devices while designing the first generation iPhone. These internal documents were filed with the court as part of the ongoing Apple-[url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/telecom/Apple-copied-Sonys-design-for-iPhone-Internal-documents/articleshow/15161361.cms#"][color="blue"][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]Samsung[/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color][/color][/url] legal battle over design violation for tablets.

Reportedly, [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Samsung"]Samsung[/url] is readying an argument that the Cupertino-based tech giant took inspiration from Sony and that this is quite common in the consumer electronics industry.

The documents submitted by Apple state that a designer developed Sony-like prototype [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/telecom/Apple-copied-Sonys-design-for-iPhone-Internal-documents/articleshow/15161361.cms#"][color="blue"][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]mobile [/size][/font][/color][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]phones[/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color][/color][/url] which even bore the Japanese company's name.

Samsung, on its part, has submitted pictures from Apple's computer aided design (CAD) system. These images show that the mock-ups created by the [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/iPhone"]iPhone[/url] maker had a jog wheel that featured in the Sony Clie PDAs.

Another filing was a March 2006 email (with attached images of an iPhone prototype) between a senior member of Apple's design team and its head of industrial design. In the mail, the senior member of the team called a mock-up "Sony-style chappy."

Notably, the images submitted by Samsung show that the mock-ups were closer to the iPhone 4 and 4S rather than the first-generation model.

Apple has sued Samsung for copying the design of its [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/iPad"]iPad[/url] tablet while creating the [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/telecom/Apple-copied-Sonys-design-for-iPhone-Internal-documents/articleshow/15161361.cms#"][color="blue"][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]Galaxy[/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color][/color][/url] Tab. It has said Google told it that the design of the P1 and P3 tablets ([url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/telecom/Apple-copied-Sonys-design-for-iPhone-Internal-documents/articleshow/15161361.cms#"][color="blue"][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]Galaxy [/size][/font][/color][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]Tab[/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color][/color][/url] and [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab"]Galaxy Tab[/url] 10.1) was "too similar" to the iPad and wanted a different design for the latter.

Samsung and Apple are scheduled to present their arguments in the patent infringement case on Monday.

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Samsung was aprtner for Apple and main AHrware vendor until Iphone 4

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[b] [b]How is Samsung hurting Apple[/b][/b]


[b]SEOUL: [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Samsung-Electronics"]Samsung Electronics[/url] regained the lead in smartphones from Apple in the first quarter of this year. One of its weapons: screens of many different sizes.

[url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Samsung"]Samsung[/url] sells at least 13 smartphones with screens ranging from 2.8 inches on the Replenish to 5.3 inches on the [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/telecom/How-is-Samsung-hurting-Apple/articleshow/12976542.cms#"][color="blue"][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]Galaxy[/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color][/color][/url] Note. Apple, which has always believed in a limited number of models, offers only a 3.5-inch display on its two iPhones. Suwon, South Korea-based [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/telecom/How-is-Samsung-hurting-Apple/articleshow/12976542.cms#"][color="blue"][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]Samsung[/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color][/color][/url] is testing the tablet market as well with a similar plan.

The different strategies -- and the success of Samsung's -- has led analysts including London-based Neil Mawston at Strategy Analytics to speculate that Apple will have to expand its line at some point. Samsung also ended the 14-year reign of [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/telecom/How-is-Samsung-hurting-Apple/articleshow/12976542.cms#"][color="blue"][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]Nokia[/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color][/color][/url] as the world's biggest maker of all kinds of [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/phones"]phones[/url] in the last quarter.

"Samsung has long had a buckshot strategy for its mobile and portable hardware," Mawston said. "Samsung fires out dozens of new models at high speed every year and hopes that one or more will eventually stick."

The maker of the Galaxy range of phones sold 93.5 million handsets in the first quarter, 36 per cent more than a year earlier, Strategy Analytics said April 27. Nokia shipped 82.7 million, down 24 per cent, and Apple sold 35.1 million units, an 89 per cent increase from last year.

Samsung sold 44.5 million smartphones in the three months ended in March, regaining the lead from Apple, according to the researcher's data. [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/telecom/How-is-Samsung-hurting-Apple/articleshow/12976542.cms#"][color="blue"][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]Smartphones[/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color][/color][/url] let users watch video, send e- mails, play games and surf the Web.

[b]Product breadth[/b]
Size is an important reason in choosing mobile devices after Google's free [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Android"]Android[/url] software became the biggest challenger to Apple's [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/iOS"]iOS[/url] in the $219 billion [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/telecom/How-is-Samsung-hurting-Apple/articleshow/12976542.cms#"][color="blue"][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]global [/size][/font][/color][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]smartphone[/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color][/color][/url] market.

"What we're seeing here is, really, Samsung gaining share because of product breadth," said Mark Newman, a Hong Kong- based analyst for Sanford C Bernstein & Co. "They have all different price range for all different people."

Samsung plans to unveil a successor to the [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Galaxy-S-II"]Galaxy S II[/url] in [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/London"]London[/url] today.

Last week, Asia's biggest consumer-electronics maker said first-quarter profit jumped 81 per cent to 5.05 trillion won ($4.5 billion) after earnings at [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/telecom/How-is-Samsung-hurting-Apple/articleshow/12976542.cms#"][color="blue"][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]the [/size][/font][/color][color=blue !important][font=georgia][size=4]mobile[/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color][/color][/url] business almost tripled. Chinese demand for the [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/iPhone"]iPhone[/url] helped Apple boost its fiscal second-quarter profit 94 per cent.

Samsung shares have gained 33 per cent this year in [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Seoul"]Seoul[/url] trading, while Apple has surged about 44 per cent in [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/New-York"]New York[/url].

[b]Hybrid phone-tablet[/b]
Critical to the surge in profit at Samsung was the Galaxy Note, a hybrid between a phone and tablet computer equipped with a stylus to manipulate programs, photographs and text on its screen. Since Note's debut in October, Samsung sold more than 5 million of them.

Samsung said it expects to sell 10 million units by the end of this year and plans to introduce more pen-equipped products with different screen sizes.

"Screen size seems to be far more important than we originally anticipated," [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Daniel-Dae-Kim"]Daniel Kim[/url], a Seoul-based analyst at Macquarie Group, said in a March 28 report. "Once consumers are used to larger screens, few go back to screens smaller than four inches."

Samsung counts Apple as its biggest client -- Apple accounted for 7.64 percent of Samsung's revenue, buying chips and displays, according to data compiled by [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bloomberg"]Bloomberg[/url] -- even as the two companies have sued each other across four continents, with Apple accusing Samsung of "slavishly copying" its products.

Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple, declined to comment.

[b]'Market's needs'[/b]
"Our smartphone displays are designed to maximize the strengths of each device and reflect the market's needs," Chris Jung, a Seoul-based spokesman for Samsung, said in an e-mail.

The multisize screen approach isn't playing out in the tablet market, where Apple dominated with 62 per cent of the market as of December 31, compared with Samsung's 9 per cent, according to estimates by IHS.

Unlike its strategy for the [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/iPod"]iPod[/url] music players -- where Apple brought out the Nano, the Mini and the Shuffle after the original was introduced in 2001 -- the [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Cupertino"]Cupertino[/url], California- based company has followed a one-size display for its phones and tablets.

[b]iPhone, iPad[/b]
The iPhone, which debuted in 2007, featured the same 3.5- inch display screen as the latest [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/iPhone-4S"]iPhone 4S[/url] model, even as the resolution improved. Similarly, the [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/iPad"]iPad[/url] tablet computer has sported a 9.7-inch screen since then-Chief Executive Officer [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Steve-Jobs"]Steve Jobs[/url] unveiled it in 2010, while the display quality subsequently sharpened.

In contrast, Samsung's first [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Galaxy-Tab-tablet"]Galaxy Tab tablet[/url] device was introduced in 2010 with a 7.7-inch screen, while Waterloo, Ontario-based [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Research-in-Motion"]Research In Motion[/url] Ltd unveiled its PlayBook with a 7-inch display.

In addition to the 7.7-inch model, Samsung sells the Galaxy in the US with displays of 7 inches, 8.9 inches and 10.1 inches.

Jobs said in October 2010 that [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/RIM"]RIM[/url] would struggle to attract application developers to support its [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BlackBerry"]BlackBerry[/url] smartphone and that devices like its PlayBook tablet are "dead on arrival" because they're too small to compete with the iPad.

[b]Size speculation[/b]
Speculation has persisted that Apple will add different screen sizes. The Maeil Business Newspaper reported in March the [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/iPhone-5"]iPhone 5[/url] will have a 4.6-inch display, while the Chinese online portal Netease reported last month that Apple is planning to introduce a smaller iPad.

Still, "Apple could play the 'if it's not broke, don't fix it' card," said Ramon Llamas, an analyst at [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/IDC"]IDC[/url] in Framingham, Massachusetts.

While Samsung has taken the market-share lead in unit sales, Apple still garners most of the industry's operating profits, wrote Michael Walkley, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity, in a May 1 note. Apple accounted for 73 per cent of all handset- industry profits in the first quarter, he estimated, and Samsung generated 26 per cent, giving the duo 99 per cent of the total.

One of the foundations of Apple's success has been its focus on developing a single iconic product with mass appeal, rather than seek market share by having a broad portfolio of products, said Brian Marshall, an equity analyst with International Strategy & Investments, in [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/San-Francisco"]San Francisco[/url].

Given the fast growth in tablets and phones and Apple's relatively low market share in the latter, the company doesn't need to expand its form factors for now, Marshall said. As the markets get more saturated, the pressure will be much stronger to add more screen sizes.

"Today, the answer is no," he said. "Down the road, the answer is yes," he said.

Mawston at Strategy Analytics agrees.

"Apple will need different screen sizes if it decides to launch new models for lower-cost segments in the future," he said.[/b]

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